Not exactly sure I see the irony. He (or his heirs), were going to see that money at some point. He owns the team. With the way the NBA has been growing recently, they/he probably would have seen even more money had this incident not occurred.

You and I both know that but not everyone will. Plus, is he really going to be that upset when he cashes a check for $2b?

QFT, I think the Sterling has a strong enough legal team to prevent any of this from happening if he doesn't want it to.

And if he doesn't ... if he wants to spend thousands upon thousands (probably well into the hundreds of thousands) of dollars to prevent somebody from giving him 2 billion (for a franchise that is valued at half of that, BTW), I think that makes a pretty good case for those who say he's mentally incapacitated.

And if he doesn't ... if he wants to spend thousands upon thousands (probably well into the hundreds of thousands) of dollars to prevent somebody from giving him 2 billion (for a franchise that is valued at half of that, BTW), I think that makes a pretty good case for those who say he's mentally incapacitated.

I was going to agree with you and then just decided to google what Sterling is worth so I could post the actual number and we could laugh about it (thinking it would be really, really high)

But his net worth, from a consensus of all of the google returns, is right at 2 billion. I have to assume that since he hasn't officially sold the team yet, that that number includes the Clippers, which at best have been valued at 1 billion. That means that this sale would net him a huge percentage increase on his total. Based on my guesses (and, yes, I'm fully admitting that they're all guesses) he'd be going from 2B to roughly 3B. 50% is a lot, no matter how much you had to start.